Chinese FD

As usual Ankler provides a thoughtful discussion. Why is Hollywood losing its connection with China? Most of the reasons are well known. Xi is switching back to China’s 5000-year norm of internal isolation. The middle kingdom is the only kingdom. After 40 years of commercial connection and student spying, China has acquired all of our skills and knowledge, and has developed its own skills and knowledge securely enough to disconnect the source.

I made a trivial ‘Actually’ comment about the source of the term political correctness, and later realized there’s a much more important point in the discussion.

Around 32 minutes the discussers compare China’s social media to ours, and observe that China’s social media is unified while ours is divided.

The standard conclusion is that China is a “Communist Dictatorship” while we are a “Constitutional Democracy”.

There’s another way to look at the distinction.

Our state-run media is meant to divide our people. China’s state-run media IS NOT MEANT TO DIVIDE ITS PEOPLE.

Our media was formerly more like China’s thanks to the Fairness Doctrine. Radio and TV were FORBIDDEN to create partisan divisions. All “news” and all comedy and entertainment had to avoid R vs D and other denominational splits. The result was vastly closer to FACTUAL, because nearly all divides are myths. The result also gave vastly more confidence and strength to the people, which is why China follows FDR while we follow Mach.

Less definite speculation: Perhaps 25 years of Mao gave China an overdose of intentional division and taught its leaders the value of NOT dividing. Mao divided the people by class and generation, and organized the younger generation to destroy their parents and bosses. Sounds familiar, and not by fucking coincidence. Our Wokers began as Maoists in 1968. Since Mao’s death, China’s traditional family structure has been reinforced by government, not smashed by government. Now we’re stuck with Mao.